Contract type
Open ended - Full time
Location
Plymouth, PL1 2PB, UK
Hours
37 hours per week to start from 1st April 2025
About the role
Do you want to feel as though you are helping to understand and protect the ocean from the seashore to the sea floor? If so, this could be the role for you.
Join us and take a lead on our fundraising agenda based at our iconic Plymouth home. You will develop and implement strategies to steward our donors and supporters and oversee our existing programme. You will also propose ways to develop long-term relationships and build our philanthropic and individual giving campaigns. You will need to have demonstrable experience and achievements in the fundraising space and be capable of operating persuasively at all levels. You must be prepared and able to move between the strategic and the tactical, from advising Trustees and campaign planning to rolling up your sleeves and delivering on the ground. As a key player within the Engagement Directorate, you will work hand-in-glove with our Head of Engagement and build relationships and understanding across the organisation to help us communicate our work, its impact and garner new support for our mission.
If you are a fundraiser looking for a new challenge and can work with both passion and determination to get things done, then we want to hear from you.
Essential experience/skills/qualifications:
• Adept at building meaningful relationships both internally with colleagues and externally with funders.
• Able to network and collaborate with a range of potential and existing funders with the ability to articulate and report on the impact their support is making.
• Comfortable making funding requests with an excellent grasp of what makes a compelling ask, namely to Trusts, Foundations and Major Donors.
• Skilled collaborator.
• Experience at organising and hosting supporter events.
• Proven experience of unlocking opportunities from new and/or corporate donors.
• Results-driven with proven success at bid-writing and achieving targets.
• Business, action planning or project management skills.
• Demonstrable experience of managing a diverse range of campaigns and income streams.
• Highly numerate and confident in handling financial data and assimilating complex information.
• Effective marketing capability including web, content, press and social media.
• Working knowledge of digital marketing tools.
• Good working knowledge of legal, regulatory, and best practice guidelines and codes of practice around fundraising (Fundraising Regulators Code of Practice)
Please visit our website for the full job description.
Closing date: 23rd February 2025
For further information, please contact Professor Willie Wilson wilwil@mba.ac.uk
To apply
Please email recruitment@mba.ac.uk quoting reference 0125FMWW. You will need to provide four things to apply:
* Sponsorship is not available for this position.
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